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– Saudi’s Health Holding Company, the largest healthcare provider in the region, and Mass General Brigham, one of the world’s leading academic health care systems, today announced the next phase of…
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Major Healthcare Systems Opt Out
Nearly 6,500 healthcare providers have rejected Blue Cross Blue Shield’s $2.8 billion settlement agreement, choosing instead to pursue independent antitrust lawsuits against the insurance giant. This massive exodus from the…
I was intrigued by Mr. H’s mention last week of the Mass General Brigham FaceAge AI tool that can estimate age from facial photos. Researchers found that patients with cancer appeared older than…
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) pose a major public health challenge, with a critical need for accurate and scalable tools for detecting cognitive impairment (CI). Readily available electronic health records (EHRs) contain valuable…
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Revolutionary Study Compares Traditional vs. Modern AI
Mass General Brigham researchers have discovered that combining traditional diagnostic systems with modern generative AI creates the most effective approach for medical diagnosis. Their groundbreaking study compared established…
Mass General Brigham researchers see value in a hybrid approach that makes use of generative artificial intelligence to diagnose patients. Comparing two arge language models – OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.5 – with its…
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AI-enabled clinical data abstraction company Carta Healthcare has scored $18.25 million in Series B1 financing led by UPMC Enterprises.New investors MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Tampa General Hospital Ventures and Rex Health Ventures (UNC Health’s investment…
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LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, Megan Zweig, president and CEO of Rock Health Advisory; Gaye Bok, partner of AI and digital innovation fund at Mass General Brigham and Dan…
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An automated frailty assessment tool developed by researchers at Boston-based Mass General Brigham could help clinicians identify older adults at increased risk of emergency healthcare visits, hospital readmissions, or death.The MGB-Electronic Frailty Index, or…
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Innovative Risk Assessment Tool
Mass General Brigham researchers have developed an electronic frailty index that successfully identifies older adults at higher risk of adverse outcomes. This groundbreaking tool, detailed in the Journal of the American…
